Hopefully you've seen the Posters in the recent News Update blog. This is the same information in Diary form combined with the Music List for June. We have now had a myriad (10,000) views of the blog, from 65 different countries - thank you.
Meanwhile, keep watching our Peregrine chicks,…
We start May with two of the most joyful and uplifting Anthems for Easter from the Anglican Choral tradition; I wrote about "Ye Choirs" this time last year. Singing Samuel Sebastian Wesley's "BBGF" is always a treat (the male recits, the girls' antiphony, the massive organ chords and the final…
Not in 2020 or 2021 - Good Friday, 8pm Tenebrae – an ancient service with texts from Lamentations and Psalms, sung in Latin and English from the West Gallery to plainsong and polyphony by Lassus (1532-1594) and Palestrina (1525-1594), ending in darkness and silence to symbolise Jesus’ descent to the…
In our services from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday, we will journey with our Lord and his disciples from the Upper Room via Calvary to the Empty Tomb. We will be by turn exhausted, despairing, excited and joyful.
Maundy Thursday, 7.30pm Sung Mass with Washing of Feet.
At the end of this…
But first... a brief Peregrine update - as hoped for, a 3rd egg had been laid by the evening of Mon 24th March and incubation proper has started; but most unexpectedly I have twice glimpsed four eggs present during changeover between female and male.
Wednesday 2nd April, 7.30pm. 21st Anniversary St…
Messiah Concert Poster
St Michael's, Mount Dinham, is proud to be hosting a choral exchange with a Belgian university choir at the start of April.
One of our choral scholars, Marianne Connors, sang with the Chorale universitaire de Louvain whilst on her year abroad, and we are looking forward to welcoming them…
I've left the March Music List to the last minute to allow maximum exposure on the blog for David's excellent posters for the next two exciting St Michael's Lectures.
St Michael's Choir and friends spent a most enjoyable day visiting the home of our benefactor William Gibbs (1790-1875). Our thanks to…
St Michael’s Choir Recital – Wednesday 19 February 2014
Yes, it’s our own 20-strong Church Choir in Concert on Wednesday the 19th at 7.30pm singing a cappella sacred music on the theme of “Light”. Recitals at St Michael’s, Mount Dinham, EX4 4EB, are free, with refreshments and a voluntary retiring collection…
What’s on at St Michael’s, Mount Dinham – February 2014
Our thanks to Matthew Wright for the Recital Series which he is running at St Michael’s to complement the Lecture Series run by David Beadle and his helpers; these are both bringing new people to our beautiful Church mid-week.
This month…